It is with great pleasure I am finally releasing a new print that I have been working on for the last couple of months. It has taken quite a lot of effort to make a print out of this photograph until I was finally satisfied with the result and the quality. I went to all possible lengths to make sure this photographic print is truly unique and of exceptional quality.
It is printed on a photographic paper Fuji Flex, made to order, and is available in a small edition total of 10 prints and two additional artist proofs which will be up for sale once the main edition runs out.
The main edition is the following:
15 x 40“ / Edition of 5
25 x 66“ / Edition of 3
31 x 83“ / Edition of 2
The artist proof edition is the following:
15 x 40“ AP 1
25 x 66“ AP 2
To reserve your print contact for pricing inquiries.
I will write a separate blog post about how I made this print and how many tries did it take to get it right, hint - it was more than five. All the way down below you can also find a photo of a print itself to get a better sense of how it looks.
The Silent Sunrise / Yellowstone National Park, WY, 2020
But now is the most exciting part, which is – storytelling. Let me tell you the story of how I made this photograph in the first place. Please, stay with me.
I can hardly find words to describe what I felt when I experienced the scene that you see in this photograph. I’ve witnessed and photographed probably hundreds of sunrises so far but never had I experienced anything that would closely resemble this one. It was simply majestic. Not knowing what to expect, I woke up at 4 am in my tent to freezing temperatures as the alarm buzzed loudly near my ear. It was late October and frost started forming inside the tent due to my breathing overnight. Reluctantly, I forced myself to get out of my warm sleeping bag, put on frosty pants and boots, and got outside. It was pitch dark, about two hours before the sunrise. I managed to make a cup of hot coffee and started my car’s engine to warm myself up.
After contemplating a few potential locations for sunrise and weather conditions I decided to head out somewhere where very few photographers usually go in this park. And probably rightfully so, because under normal circumstances this location would not provide anything worth photographing. But that is under normal circumstances! After years of doing landscape photography, I have learned that the hardest thing of all is to know where and when to stand to be able to capture something really unique. That morning, I have noticed extremely low temperatures and moisture in the air comparing to the previous night, which usually leads to a fog above the rivers and lakes. I knew almost for a fact, that, despite all other beautiful places, mountains, and creeks in the park, this will be THE place to stand that morning. To no surprise there were exactly zero people around me when I arrived there – I had this place all to myself.
All the elements one could wish for in this composition came together; fog, ice on the river, absence of wind, a timidly rising disk of the Sun, and complete silence. I was the only person on this planet at that moment who witnessed and photographed this beautiful scene.
“I live LIFE“ – I whispered to myself with true delight.
Field notes: Arca Swiss RL3d Large Format Camera, Rodenstock 180mm, 1s, f/11
As this is a photographic print it reacts to the lighting in the room and may look darker in the evening or much brighter in the morning when there is a lot of natural light. This photo was taken in the middle of the day in a darker light conditions, because of that it tends to look slightly warmer.